I was visited by 2 representatives of the company, encouraging me to switch to their service. They offered a demo of its speed.
They hooked it up and I got 5 bars. I am on a second floor with a clear line of sight to a cell tower about 300 yards away, so no surprise.
However, they were gobsmacked at this 'linux' thing I ran on my computer. They didn't know what it was or if Clearwire would work with my system. I did a few pings and direct ip addresses, hoping to see if it would work. No go.
All in all, I was not impressed. They were nice guys and all, but didn't know much beyond plugging things in. I won't be switching.
My partner works at Wal-Mart and their new policy is that they will not take back iPods nor iPod accessories. Even if you just buy the wrong one or the wrong color, you must deal with Apple. Wal-Mart will not let you return it.
Don't get me started on Wal-Mart. It's awful.
I use JPilot to sync my PDA, so all my appointments are in it already. Keep it open on your desktop and it can pop up a reminder or play a sound. Good enough for me.
Barbara
I use Firefox on Windows and Linux. I think in the last three months I've gotten maybe 3 popups. I have no extensions installed, but I also use privoxy on both Windows and Linux. Combined, they work quite well.
I noticed it updated yesterday, so I checked it out. I use a lot of pdf's for reference (like the Pragmatic Programmer's Ruby book). It looks a LOT nicer, does suck up about 25MB of memory while it's running.
I generally prefer FOSS, but Acrobat just works better for me.
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I did Nanowrimo last year. I had about 40000 words written years ago, but never finished it. So I took the situation and characters and wrote a new book, different adventures. It's not great, but I got off my posterior and WROTE it!! That's the important part. And yes, I am doing it again this year. Don't have a plot yet, but it'll come to me.
I've been using linux since Redhat 4 (even still have the CDs for that). I've used Mandrake, Suse, Redhat, Debian, and experimented with Gentoo, Vector, Lycoris and a few others. I'm using Slackware 9.1 upgraded to current and I love it. Fast, easy to maintain, and keeping it up to date using Swaret is a breeze.
The init style is so much easier to understand than other distros, and the community over at the Slack forum at linuxquestions.org is amazing. I think Slackware has an iffy reputation due to no gui tools. But the *.conf files are so well commented, actually Pat has a nice little firewall script in the comments in the/etc/rc.modules file!
Anyway, I will buy a Slack 10 CD when it's released, but I doubt I'll need it. Slack just works.
This article brought back fond memories. The Spot was one of the first websites I ever visited on a daily or more basis. I had escaped the Compuserve prison and was out on the wild, wild web for the first time. I enjoyed it then. I don't think I want to go see it again, somethings are better kept in the past.
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I was visited by 2 representatives of the company, encouraging me to switch to their service. They offered a demo of its speed. They hooked it up and I got 5 bars. I am on a second floor with a clear line of sight to a cell tower about 300 yards away, so no surprise. However, they were gobsmacked at this 'linux' thing I ran on my computer. They didn't know what it was or if Clearwire would work with my system. I did a few pings and direct ip addresses, hoping to see if it would work. No go. All in all, I was not impressed. They were nice guys and all, but didn't know much beyond plugging things in. I won't be switching.
My partner works at Wal-Mart and their new policy is that they will not take back iPods nor iPod accessories. Even if you just buy the wrong one or the wrong color, you must deal with Apple. Wal-Mart will not let you return it. Don't get me started on Wal-Mart. It's awful.
I used Rhapsody on Windows, (when I still ran Windows) and I liked it a lot. But no linux, no rhapsody. I'll be following this closely.
Barbara
I use JPilot to sync my PDA, so all my appointments are in it already. Keep it open on your desktop and it can pop up a reminder or play a sound. Good enough for me. Barbara
I use Firefox on Windows and Linux. I think in the last three months I've gotten maybe 3 popups. I have no extensions installed, but I also use privoxy on both Windows and Linux. Combined, they work quite well.
I noticed it updated yesterday, so I checked it out. I use a lot of pdf's for reference (like the Pragmatic Programmer's Ruby book). It looks a LOT nicer, does suck up about 25MB of memory while it's running. I generally prefer FOSS, but Acrobat just works better for me.
I did Nanowrimo last year. I had about 40000 words written years ago, but never finished it. So I took the situation and characters and wrote a new book, different adventures. It's not great, but I got off my posterior and WROTE it!! That's the important part. And yes, I am doing it again this year. Don't have a plot yet, but it'll come to me.
I've been using linux since Redhat 4 (even still have the CDs for that). I've used Mandrake, Suse, Redhat, Debian, and experimented with Gentoo, Vector, Lycoris and a few others. I'm using Slackware 9.1 upgraded to current and I love it. Fast, easy to maintain, and keeping it up to date using Swaret is a breeze.
/etc/rc.modules file!
The init style is so much easier to understand than other distros, and the community over at the Slack forum at linuxquestions.org is amazing. I think Slackware has an iffy reputation due to no gui tools. But the *.conf files are so well commented, actually Pat has a nice little firewall script in the comments in the
Anyway, I will buy a Slack 10 CD when it's released, but I doubt I'll need it. Slack just works.
This article brought back fond memories. The Spot was one of the first websites I ever visited on a daily or more basis. I had escaped the Compuserve prison and was out on the wild, wild web for the first time. I enjoyed it then. I don't think I want to go see it again, somethings are better kept in the past.